Posts Tagged ‘iranian nuclear programme’

In essence, there are two components to the deal struck between Iran and America in the early hours of Sunday morning in Geneva. On the one hand the US has tacitly acknowledged the Iranian right to en...
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I’m back from Geneva after covering the marathon Iran nuclear talks, which turned into a bit of a marathon for us journalists as well. Now that the match is over, let me offer a few rather disjointe...
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I’m in Geneva for the latest round of Iran nuclear talks. One of the crunch issues is the future of the new plutonium reactor that Iran is building at a place called Arak. One diplomat says the futu...
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I have long regarded John Humphrys of the BBC's Today programme as one of the Britain’s most professional, fearless and impartial interviewers. But I am wondering whether to reconsider this opinion ...
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I’m in Moscow for the third round of negotiations between Iran and the world’s six leading powers so far this year. Events of this kind remind you that so much of diplomacy boils down to questions...
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Let me offer a few thoughts about Iran – rough and ready but converging on one theme: stay calm. 1) Iran is not racing to build a nuclear weapon. The Iranian nuclear programme is a strange, stop-sta...
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Iran could develop a nuclear weapon as soon as 2012, Liam Fox has said. The West should “act in accordance” with that timeline, the British Defence Secretary said. In the House of Commons, Dr Fox ...
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